Bharti Airtel Ltd in association with Wayfinder Systems has launched GPS navigation for select few cities in India[Bangalore, Chennai, Chandigrah Delhi NCR, Kolkatta, Mumbai and Pune] and for almost the entire US and Europe. Few months ago I had seen a GPS navigation system in Bangalore and didn’t find it good and compelling enough toContinue Reading

BSNL’s Mega GSM Tender for PAN India expansion is very likely to face further delays due to questions raised by IT and Communications Minister, A.Raja. Capacity shortfall has led to BSNL’s share of net adds declining sharply to ~13% in the last 12 months from a peak of 21% in FY05,Continue Reading

Vodafone CEO, Arun Sarin said – Losers Club tried to derail the Hutch-Vodafone Deal earlier this year. I really did not expect people — the ‘good and great’ of India — to be calling cabinet secretaries, ministers, to say, ‘You have to unwind this deal, because we want a piece ofContinue Reading

A year ago, Qualcomm and Reliance talks over CDMA royalty issues were deadlocked. Qualcomm didn’t budge despite repeated pleas from then IT Minister, Dayanidhi Maran. Immediately, Anil Ambani announced massive GSM expansion and applied for PAN India licenses which he also secured after few months. Meanwhile, Hucth’s stake in Hutchison-Essar was forContinue Reading

A readers of this blog, working for CISCO in Bangalore negotiated for a Reliance Broadband CUG connection, Here is what he has to say, One correction its not 15+ but applicable for 50+ connections. We needed a high bandwidth connection but with low data limit and within a budget of 600/pm as myContinue Reading

The Indian Mobile Value Added Services [VAS] market is expected to touch $2 Billion this FY ending March-08 a healthy 65% growth over last year. VAS include SMS, MMS, GPRS Enabled WAP Browsing, Ringtones, Caller Tones, Games etc. According to ASSOCHAM, The ringtone market is estimated to touch Rs 270Continue Reading

Kamla is looking for some a Web 2.0 guru familar with podcasts and webcasts. WordPress is built on LAMP, so if that’s your core skill set and looking for some extra bucks, read on… this is a paid part-time position and you must be in Bangalore / Bengalooru Responsibilities include: 1.MustContinue Reading

I was tipped off by a reader that Social Networking site, Bharat Student is spamming on Orkut by posting short links to Po*n vidoes hosted on BharatStudent.Com I did check myself and found the allegation to be true. However, I am not sure if folks paid by the company are doingContinue Reading

We have two mobile advertising startups in India – mGinger and adMad which use the internet as medium, lets users sign up to receive mobile advertisements as SMS and pay the user to read those advertisements. Recall AllAdvantage.Com, a which startup had raised $200 million and was liberally paying web surfers to surf theContinue Reading